Mickey Haller (McConaughey) operates on Louis Roulet (Phillippe), who is accused for the brutal beating of prostitute. Haller thinks Roulet is innocent as it bears a similarity to a past case of Haller’s that landed a previous client, Martinez (Michael Peña) in prison for life and Haller begins to suspect that Roulet could be the killer in the Martinez case. Later Roulet breaks into Haller’s house and makes threats toward Haller’s family. Roulet is released due to lack of evidence and sets out immediately to kill Haller’s wife and child however Haller rescues them. Later Haller gets strong evidence against Roulet in his pending murder trial. Later Martinez gets release and Roulet gets death penalty. Haller head’s towards new case.